Voices

Last year

2025

book extract

Pop music history: 'Women music managers were few and far between'

Dr Michael Murphy

5 Apr 2025

4.2k

Youth Mental Health

Opinion: School Avoidance is a crisis - here's how we can support children back into education

Marian Quinn

4 Apr 2025

121k

GAA finest

Farewell, Micko: The King is Dead, Long Live the King

Paul Collins

Updated 3 Apr 2025

8.4k

trade tariffs

'Liberation Day' and its fallout: Trump thrives on the uncertainty and chaos he's created

Larry Donnelly

3 Apr 2025

11.6k

neurodiversity

World Autism Day: 'My children deserve to be valued by the system for who they are'

Lucinda Murrihy

Updated 2 Apr 2025

10.2k

supporting boys and men

Opinion: Our focus should not be on 'toxic masculinity', but on why men and boys feel so lost

Dr Chris Luke

Updated 1 Apr 2025

13.5k

InvestigatesThe GP Crisis

Opinion: 'Not only could he not get an appointment, he couldn't get a GP to take him on'

Anonymous

1 Apr 2025

15.7k

island history

Opinion: Ireland’s islands have a unique and captivating history — we should cherish them

Pamela de Brí

31 Mar 2025

6.3k

chop baby chop

Opinion: This government is determined to turn its back on sustainable forestry in Ireland

Pádraic Fogarty

31 Mar 2025

12.0k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A laboratory specialist on €70K living in Dublin

The Journal reader

30 Mar 2025

32.2k

Opinion

Lukashenko: How Europe's last dictator figures in the thawing of US-Russian relations

Sasha Romanova

30 Mar 2025

10.2k

nature of motherhood

Mother’s Day: It's not gratitude that's needed, it's an honest conversation about motherhood

Dr Fiona Murphy

30 Mar 2025

10.2k

eurovision 2025

Eurovision: Do this year's picks show a continent seeking escapism from the harsh news cycle?

Louise Holst

29 Mar 2025

6.1k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Don't worry, they're only telling us to sit down with their fingers

Carl Kinsella

29 Mar 2025

6.9k

we need a break

The Motherload: What mums really want for Mother’s Day (hint, it’s not a foot spa)

Niamh O'Reilly

29 Mar 2025

14.8k

the great disruptor

Opinion: At the rate Trump is going, it will be a long four-year term

Emma DeSouza

Updated 28 Mar 2025

12.0k

135

little feckers

Bugged out over nits: Are head lice just impossible to get rid of these days?

Niamh O'Reilly

27 Mar 2025

11.8k

Horror

Books: An extract from Róisín Lanigan's new novel, 'I want to go home, but I'm already there'

Róisín Lanigan

25 Mar 2025

4.7k

GOAL VOICES

Opinion: After 14 years of conflict, Syria's women stand ready to rebuild

Doaa Ghadab & Zeina Ali Bajo

Updated 25 Mar 2025

3.8k

Healthcare

Mental health and physical illness: 'The system turns its back on some patients'

Dr Stephen McWilliams

24 Mar 2025

8.3k

HISMM

Money Diaries: An interior designer on €45K living in Leinster

The Journal reader

23 Mar 2025

29.4k

Jeff Bezos

Bookshop owner: 'The new Amazon.ie is bad news for Irish bookshops and other SMEs'

Sarah Kenny

23 Mar 2025

15.7k

have we dosed yet?

Parenting: Buckle up, this is going to get itchy... we're talking threadworms

Margaret Lynch

22 Mar 2025

19.1k

climate warriors

Fighting for Justice: How Guatemala’s Indigenous communities recover from conflict

Alejandra Castillo

22 Mar 2025

3.9k

netflix drama

How fragile we are: Why Netflix drama Adolescence is essential viewing for everyone

Debbie Ging

Updated 20 Mar 2025

41.4k

139

prescriptions

Social Prescribing: What is it all about and how can it help our health?

Liz O'Hagan

19 Mar 2025

9.2k

St Patrick's parades: I skipped the Dublin one and headed to the sea — it was a great change

Derek Walsh

18 Mar 2025

15.1k

St Patrick's Day

Opinion: Watching Conor McGregor in The White House was dystopian and disturbing

Rachel Morrogh

Updated 18 Mar 2025

20.7k

vance and musk

Pronatalism on the rise: Collapsing birth rates do not threaten civilisation — the opposite is true

Dr Catherine Conlon

17 Mar 2025

15.8k

our patron saint

Prayer, pints and politics: A history of St Patrick’s Day through the ages

Dr Angela Byrne

17 Mar 2025

6.9k

HISMM

Money Diaries: A software consultant on €76K living in Co Kildare

The Journal reader

16 Mar 2025

29.4k

Irish identity

What it means to be Irish: What does the research tell us about our identity?

Finian Murphy

16 Mar 2025

13.2k

131

an epic tale

St Patrick: A migrant, a myth and a global brand?

Dr Fiona Murphy

15 Mar 2025

9.3k

Surrealing in the Years

Surrealing in the Years: Plámás is far too kind a word for what we witnessed this week

Carl Kinsella

15 Mar 2025

11.9k

saturday serving

The Hungry Hooker: Jonny Murphy shares simple recipes for St Patrick's weekend

Jonny Murphy

15 Mar 2025

11.2k

Housing Crisis

Opinion: My heart sank when I saw the laughter in the Oval Office about our housing crisis

Sylvia Power

Updated 14 Mar 2025

26.2k

relief all round

All things considered, the Taoiseach will be happy with how he handled a tricky Trump encounter

Larry Donnelly

Updated 13 Mar 2025

13.5k

The Lancet

Opinion: ‘Universal GP care for Ireland is long overdue’

Domhnall McGlacken-Byrne

12 Mar 2025

7.2k

getting itchy

Scabies on the rise in Ireland and Europe: What is it, and what are the risks?

Dr Catherine Conlon

11 Mar 2025

29.4k

Economics

Analysis: How well is the Irish economy really doing?

Ciarán Casey

Updated 11 Mar 2025

15.3k